Capture Those Thoughts

Some of the best ideas are brilliant through their simplicity.

I’m forever imagining that my most profound thoughts slip from my grasp for want of a piece of paper to capture them on.

(Isn’t it always the case that the ones that got away were so much better than the ones you managed to catch.)

For all the technology we have at our disposal, there’s something special about pencil and paper in the way that it lets you capture a thought before its lost, that firing up a techno-whiz-box can’t replicate.

The thoughts that I do capture are scribbled on leaflets or supermarket receipts where they merge with the original text or jotted on odd scraps of paper I may have to hand. I’ve lost count of the number of these pearls that have been lost by becoming indecipherable or simply mislaid.

Of course I could carry a notepad, but thoughts have a habit of arriving unannounced and even the rummaging for notepad from a bag can be long enough for it to flee.

The answer may be at hand, and it’s free and to top it all it has the magical power of making a single sheet of paper seem to last forever.

At PocketMod.com there’s a beautiful utility for printing a small book with a variety of page styles and guides all from a single sheet of paper.

You can include a host of prepared formats from shopping lists to tables, lined pages to grids. If you wish you can include conversion charts, games, diary pages and contacts or shopping lists. There's a page for your own contact details for return of your insights should they get mislaid. You can even include a page to learn the Morse code.

With a print and a twist the single printed sheet is turned into a booklet.

The book takes no space at all and can be slipped into a pocket on permanent standby for those insights, or to capture the more prosaic data of everyday life.

All I need now is a folding pencil.

Take a look at http://www.pocketmod.com/